{"id":1410,"date":"2023-06-03T03:10:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T03:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/are-we-getting-what-we-deserve\/"},"modified":"2023-06-03T03:10:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T03:10:32","slug":"are-we-getting-what-we-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/are-we-getting-what-we-deserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Getting What We Deserve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">It is only fitting that a fiscally irresponsible people should get a fiscally irresponsible government.&#0160; And that a people without virtue should be ruled by the vicious. And that a nation that has lost its collective marbles should be presided over by a decrepit specimen who has long since lost his.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The people can&#39;t think but they can gawk over endless&#0160; views of a sad old man tripping over a sandbag. And then the pundits wonder whether he is physically fit for office. But his physical decrepitude and age are not what primarily disqualify him. What does so are his being <em>non compos mentis<\/em>, his being morally corrupt, and his being the empty vessel of destructive leftist ideas. So no, Hillary dear, he is not &quot;doing a good job.&quot; Joey is not doing jack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is only fitting that a fiscally irresponsible people should get a fiscally irresponsible government.&#0160; And that a people without virtue should be ruled by the vicious. And that a nation that has lost its collective marbles should be presided over by a decrepit specimen who has long since lost his. The people can&#39;t think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/are-we-getting-what-we-deserve\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are We Getting What We Deserve?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}